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Reviewer: 65-74 Female on Treatment for 1 to less than 2 years (Consumer)
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Reviewer: nemomojo, 45-54 Female on Treatment for 5 to less than 10 years
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About 7 years ago, I went into menopause and did not want to take any of the harmones so I took estroven. It worked for a while, I then graduated to extra strength estroven. It worked for awhile, then I looked up the main ingredient and started buying it in the store. I took the lowest dosage and it worked. I have increased the dosage over the years (5+ years) and would not trade it for nothing el
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Reviewer: tweetypie, 45-54 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Consumer)
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I was thrown into early menopause by chemotherapy. I had preventive chemo and radiation after having a lumpectomy that WAS cancer. Hot flashes became unpredictable and unbearable. Especially at night. Awoke many, many times soaking wet and sleep was constantly interrupted.I was told about Black Cohosh by a client. The nights I had the flashes were bad enough, but when I had 1 during the day at wo
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Reviewer: lisalisa17, 45-54 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Consumer)
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Was having hot flashes every hour and it reduced to maybe 3 mild hot spells a day.
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Reviewer: 45-54 Female on Treatment for 6 months to less than 1 year (Consumer)
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Hot flashes became more intense, began having night sweats that kept waking me up
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